BURIED OR CREMATED ?

[anne]

Another thing,about 2 years ago i watched a programme on telly{then wished i hadnt}about old burial sites being moved to new locations because the land was needed for new buildings.When they were taking the lids off the coffins,on the underside there were scratch marks where the poor person had been buried alive,even their finger ends were worn away where they had been scratching to get out.I couldnt sleep for weeks after and i think thats what {apart from another stupid thing}made me decide thats it i am getting cremated.Its just a terrifying thought..Anne.

[GRACELAND]

   Anne, i think im going now on the side of cremation !
                                         

[newbie]

Me Too
How awful, would've kept me awake for months!
Newbie

[MrsLizzy]

I want a Green Burial.  My Mum wants a really really really cheap funeral so a green burial appeals to her as you can have a cardboard coffin.   Mum reckons dying is way too expensive these days and there ought to be a "fast funeral joint" called "Funerals R Us" or (my suggestion) "McDead".

Yes in the old days being buried alive was not at all uncommon.  They do sometimes find graves where the poor person has even turned over on their side and pushed their fingers down their throat in a desperate bid to somehow force air down.  It's not likely to happen these days though, is it, with the sensitive equipment we have.  We're more likely to be kept "breathing" by artificial means, long after we've really "died".    Also with a green burial you aren't buried so far down, so your chances of getting out and terrifying the wits out of your loved ones are much greater.

My mother in law has a terrible fear of having a gravestone erected over her, with its weight "pressing down on her".  Her mother had the same fear.  My mother in law is going for cremation to avoid the risk of having any lumps of stone put on her.

[Darcy]

Hi All

I always did want to be cremated but your horror stories have dispelled any lingering doubt I may have had!!!
I want my ashes scattered. I have told my lot if they cement me into a wall I really will visit them again -  when they least expect it
I am going to be good phosphate for the earth - that's sort of green isn't it?

Cheers
Aaron

[trystan]

When I go and see the grave of my loved ones, it helps me visualize them sleeping in the grave.

I think too, I'd like my final claim of land - my whole life taken up by a few cubic feet of soil.

I've been a bearer of a coffin for my uncle too, and I'll have to make sure I go on a diet before I go. 

Anyhow, considering the amount of beer I drink, it would take them a week to put me out if they burnt me.

[Kazza]

Hi there,

Lots of comments,  and lookins on this thread but only 5 votes so far. 

I will have to be buried,  I loved graveyards as a child,  particularly reading old gravestones,  and I want to leave something for one of my descendents to stumble across in a graveyard in a couple of centuries time,  saying, 'At last I have found her......

Kazza. 

[Boongie Pam]

Okay I voted.  Since I have just come back from my grandad's burial, I would want the same but without the lone piper and the crying.

I am a deep sleeper though so I'll have to be careful! 

I'll have a wicker coffin and "Leaving on a jet plane" and "Take me home country road" playing on the CD.  My mum is refusing to let me play John Denver if I go first.  So I've given her an alternative of "Baby I'm burning" by Dolly Parton.  BUT NO CREMATION!

And then the biggest leaving party ever!!!

My mum gets a bit upset when I go on about it especially when I tell her she is being chucked off the back of the Mersey Ferry!

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[Fitty]

Giggle!